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Sunday, April 9, 2017

Recycling: What do people do in your area?

More and more cities, governments, and individuals are becoming concerned about protecting our environment and resources. However, for the individual citizen, what do people in your area do (or DON'T do) to recycle at home. Personally, we collect our newspapers for the week and take them to a local school down the street where they collect them for recycling. Furthermore, we also put some of our leftover food (e.g., banana peels, egg shells, vegetables, etc.) outside in a special box that turns the scraps into soil for our garden.

So, what about you and people in your area? What can we do more to protect our future?

167 comments:

Not many people in my area are concerned about recycling, so there are not many opportunities to be concerned even if you want to. For example, the schools collect paper for recycling only twice a year and not with a big enthusiasm. And to find another place where to take newspapers or other things for recycling is difficult. Though, we have special machines for used plastic bottles everywhere. I've never seen anybody except alchoholics and homeless people using them, but I do use)) Plus in our dacha we also have a special box for compost.

I believe that the issue of recycling is a topic of importance that has been placed among us since a long time ago, since it would bring the benefit to our environment to our environment, so the recilclage should be used by all of us, so we will collaborate together , I think we should take the step personally and then invite the people around us, I think the most productive activities would be talks, expositions to all ages and communities of that topic. this is only my opinion, of course I have the due respect for their ideal. Thank you

I believe that the issue of recycling is a topic of importance that has been placed among us since a long time ago, since it would bring the benefit to our environment to our environment, so the recilclage should be used by all of us, so we will collaborate together , I think we should take the step personally and then invite the people around us, I think the most productive activities would be talks, expositions to all ages and communities of that topic. this is only my opinion, of course I have the due respect for their ideal. Thank you

I think that recycling is something important, but many people are not aware of the importance of it. only people like ecologists, or homeless people or some who are aware of this, recycle. But the rest do not care and do not know the consequences that can not recycle.

Here in town, Ciudad Juarez,we don't have a specific plan, we can recycle the garbage, in organic,inorganic,plastic,aluminium,etc...,and some places do, is a culture.We can save energy turning off the lights that we are not using, I don't know we need take action about this concern. The planet is our enviroment,is all we have,is our home, the global warming for example is the red light now, we need to be aware and take big actions.LDG Erika Valenzuela

To save the environment, I try to buy some stuffs that are made of materials which does not ruin the nature. For example, I do not buy plastic stuffs.I also have Recycle Bags for shopping.The other thing that I do, is to reduce using washing machine;I collect all cloths and wash them together at once.seprating garbages and puting them into the proper bins is another thing that I do.Moreover, instead of consuming paper towels for cleaning, I try to use fabrics. I collect glass bottles and turn them into decorating peices for my dining table.These are the methods that I try to do personally to keep the nature alive.

Here in Brazil, ordinary people like me are getting more and more concerned with the protection and preservation of our local environment. We have some special bins/trash cans usually located on the premises of buildings and of other public places such as shopping malls and resturants. Each can is for a specific type of material, which, of course, can be taken to a special place to be recycled.

I don't know how wide this area here is recommended. For I am a student, I'll focus mainly on my university. As far as I'm concerned, there's been improvement in protecting the environment, but still not much in recycling. There're even people having no sense of this activity. I hope in the future, there'll be more positive changes.

The recycling is an important issue, should all people become more care about it. In my country there are special companies collecting these materials, they have distributed containers with special colors in the public stores like Malls, supermarkets, in addition to the parks as kind of promotion In order to make these things familiar for the people. I think we should all support this job because we will save a lot and gain a lot.

No recycling center has been founded near our university.We do not konw where we can send the useful recycling materials.I think many people in my university still need education about how to collect the recycling materials.Most of them even don't konw what are the recycling matrials and they just throw away them whenever they want.This is a big problem for us.In my opinion, society, government and citizen should pay attention to the recycling and cooperate together to solve this problem so that our children can have a bright, beautiful and clean future.

Recycling isn't popular, especially in third world countries. If the aim is to penetrate through the minds of those living in developed countries, to recycle more and still no substantial change, how do we reach out to those in the poorest countries who have more things to worry about than their environment?! I think there's a geographical aspect to this question that, in reality, will be hard to solve.

Here, in Belgium, we have lots of different dustbins (for "usual" rubbish, biodegradable, plastic bottles, glasses,...) Of course some people do not care about it but in general people do it quite well I think.But it's not enough, of course

Recycling is a beneficial process, that could conserve our environment. However, not all of us could understand the impotence or this mechanism in our time. However,some people care of our surroundings by digging domestic waste, besides plastic things. Moreover, some of them gather & sortie plastics,glasses& papers in special cans.

First before talking about recycling to protect the environnement we need to use less packaging, produce less polluting cars and then we can talks about recycling.Because it's the firm that polute more and after it's the citizens.However, hich person must take the environnement into account on a daily basis.

Solar panes can reduce the price of electricity, heating and hot water. More and more people are interested. But the solar material is very expensive. It is ecological because it reduce the greenhouse effect. It is a profital for industrie. If the compagny use this material, it is good for the earth. It is a new trend.

Personaly, I am in favour of recycling. It is important to sort out products to reduce pollution and save money. However, I think that people are not aware of the problem of the planet. That's why they should be have to be more prevention. But,a problem remain : people have difficulty to change their behaviour.

More and more people think of the protection of the planet. More and more companies invest money to develop eco friendly systems. As far as I am concerned, I make efforts to collect and select the waste. I think that there should be more organisations which protect the environment or giving the other organisations more money to promote their campaign.

Car-pooling, recycling are a good idea to protect our environment. I think that we should reduce the amount of waste and people should feel concerned. People should save energies, raw materials to reduce the greenhouse effect, water pollution, air pollution and so on.

We all know that the global warming results from environmental pollution. For goverments, they have their own ways to solve this issue. As far as I'm concerned, the individual citizen's awareness is very important to protect our environment. In my family, my mother usually uses two kinds of wastebin, one for garbages like plastic bags, bottles, cans and one for organic garbages like vegetables. Such division does not take us alot of time and we easily take them to places to be recycled.

Here in Taiwan, recycling is more and more popular and helps many people earn a living. The government plays an important role in the promotion and enforcement of recycling. People may not adapt themselves to recycling at first but get used to it in the long run.

While recycling sounds so essential, learning to strip unnecessary wastes is always the one and only one way to saving resources on earth. After all, recycling is a mere post-action, isn't it?

In my area, most of the people don't pay much attention to saving the environment. Although recently there is a program calling everyone in my city to keep the city clean and green, but it seems like people don't really take any considerable action. I think the only thing that need to improve is that people should put more recycle bins on the side walk and at other public places. In my opinion, the main reason why people are likely to litter is that there's a lack of recycle bins. Another thing to be concerned is that many people are using plastic bags without considering the harm they are causing to the environment; therefore, raising public's awareness of this issue is necessary, too.

Here in Australia, government has Kept two bins for each home one is recycle bin and the other one is non recycle bin. People need to identify the waste and put it in respective bin. Some lasy people are not doing it. Recently adelaide state government has made rule to stop using plastic covers in shops which is appreciated. my suggestion to government is to keep one more bin to collect waste oil like car engine oil.

I know it is very important to protect the environment. I am not good at recycling. First, I don't know what is recycling material except paper. Second, it takes more time to put papers in recycling bins than garbage bins. There are some recycling bins outside a supermaket.I am a lazy people. I heard battery is harmful to the earth. I want to throw old battery in right palce but I can't find it.

Although recycling is a very important factor in order to protect environment but there is not much attention paid to take full advantage of this option. In my area, since last year property management put a container. It was not announced that the recycling services had been started and there was no formal education. Well, it took people a while to figure that out that the container is supposed to be used for recycling. It took management almost one year to send out brochures what to recycle? What I have observed that people are willing to learn and enthusiastic about recycling but there is no active effort from city as well property management. There are no separate containers for papers, bottles and other recycling materials. I believe that, in our community, we have long ways to go to perfect our practices in recycling. It will take active participation from the property management and city council to educate people and change their habits. People are willing to learn because I know that the single container we have in our property needs to be emptied out frequently than before. This shows that more and more people are participating. But I still see aluminum cans and empty bottles of bear and liquor in our front lawns.Syed

In my town, Grosseto, lots of people recycle the garbage in paper, plastic, glass, organic or inorganic. That is very important for the huminity, animals and our planet's survival. It is not so difficult... We must only put every material in its specific bin.In this way, the paper of an old newspaper can be reused as a paper sheet after the recycling.Also broken glasses can be trasformed in a bottle.

Nowadays there are many people worried about recycling. I see many of them in television, but around me i do not see where i can put the garbage to recycling in most situations.

First of all, my city do not have separated spaces for several types of garbages. In fact, when i see the garbage´s truck taking the gargabe i only see the men putting all kinds of them mixed inside the truck.

For this reason, it is more difficult for us to separate the garbage, because they mixed all of them in the garbage´s truck.

Overall, i would like to contribute to separate the garbage, but i do not know how to start this work.

We should think which is good for environment before use or buy things.There's a campaign which support using basket instead of plastic bag in my country.Some supermarkets will give you discount if you take your own basket to collect things which you buy instead of using plastic bags.I think it's good ideas.

I think we are lucky here in Austria because we have a good recycling system. Even if i cant say that for every area here. Its crazy but even if i do care about our planet, the waste and the pollution i cant say that i am doing something for it. So are the people around me. Yes, we do have special bins for our waste but we often dont use them and dont care about it. Its sad but thats the way it is. I think it is important to speak in terms of actually facts and figures that everyone can understand. So that people will become more cognizant of the problem. Its important for our planet and for us as well.

I find ths web great because it makes pupils like me work their english as they learn about environment.For example I knew that recycling was a good thing for our earth but I didn't know about all the problems linked to that subject.

I think there are more and more people in my city (Brest, in FRANCE) who feel concerned by the recylcling.Indeed, my city make the selective sorting. We have two bins : one for glass, and the other for the plastic, boxes and alluminium.People reuse potatoes peels for composting..At home, we try to switch the lights off.In shop we doesn't give plastic bag, we recycling batteries, bottles, clothes..However, some restaurants like "MacDonald" used so much packagings and this is not biodegradable.

I think that the environmental protection is very important but the problem is that few persons feel concerned. More and more associations build up to solve this problem, for example in my city there are various sorts of associations : recycling of iron, recycling of old computers, the voluntary work to clean waste in cities...Many of the other actions can be carried out at home as sorting, the economy of water, car sharing or take public transport.Everybody has to feel concerned about this subject.

To protect the environment, people shouldn't throw their waste in the street but into the bins.And people should make the sorting.In my city there aren't many bins and recycling centres so people throw the waste on the ground.For me, Political should create a law and give a fine to people who pollute the street and the sea.If people take their waste to recycling centres. they should get money back.

To protect the planet, I sort out my waste in various trash cans, I reuse my bottles, I switches off light when I go out of every room.Futehermore, I sell or give my clothes whitch I do not like any more so that they are reused usefully.I buy biodegradable bags because the plastic bags is poluting and are long to decay.But a lot of people do no thonk of the planet.

To protect the environnement, we shouldn't throw are waste in the street but in to the bins.It is necessary to buy recyclabe plastic bags.Plastic bags are dangerous for animals as the tortoise and dolphins because the waste can the prevent inhale.It is necessary to save the environnement because it is important.

In my area, we have three places where we can recycle garbage. In each place, there are three boxes: one for plastic, one for paper and newspapers and one for glasses.

At home, we put some of our leftover food (e.g., egg shells, vegetables, coffee ground ...) in a special box. Then we empty this box in a special place. This leftover food is used as fertilizer for our garden. We also collect rainwater and use it to water the garden.

Of course, recycling is an important issue.In my country there are special containers for the different garbage ( plastic, glasses, papers...).Moreover, more and more shops of my area distribute recyclable bags.What's more, in my garden there is a place where we put vegetable, banana peels and egg shells... It's a compost to produce fertilizer.And to protect our future, in my country there are wind turbines too to create energy.So i think, that people should feel more and more conserned by the environnement and the consequences.

I think recycle it's for protect the environnement. For me, electricity and water it's simple for reduce consomation, for example i take a shower, i switch the ligths off, i use public transport to go to school, and for the shopping i use plastic bags. Many people in my city recycle newspapers, bottles, cans or clothes and ter are special companies collecting these materials.

In my area, People aren't concerned about recycling. But we have different special boxes for recycling glasses, card bord and scraps.Moreover, there are people who collect garbage in my street and take it to recycling center.But, we must feel more concerned about the environment because it's important for the health planet.To conclud, I would say it's necessary to save the planet.

To protect the planet is important and simple.To participate in the protection of the environment, I switch off the light when I go out of a room, I cut the water when I brush teeth.After that, I switch the computer off when I do not use it in order to save the ellectricity.To finish, I sort out glasses, plastic bottles, the newspapers and I put then speciali garbage bin.

I think that many persons do not fell concerned enough by recycling, maybe because of the lack of bins. What more I notice that there are not bins in all the building. It seens to me that the state is right to install bins near all the buildings of the city. Thanks to that people are going feel more concerned. Personally, I try to switch of lamp, water, tv and computer when I don't need it any more.

I do not feel concerned by the recycling because in my district there are not containers to sort out our garbage. In the city people begin to install recycling containers.When I was on holidays in the south in France it was much cleanner, if the city took more actions maybe people would sort out their waste.However personnally, I return medicines and toxic products which I do not use any more to the pharmacy. I think people weather adapting to the recycling. A simple act for the earth.

To protect our future, we have to react. Everybody has to do something to protect our future. We can take simple actions. For exemple, sort out plastic, paper and glass. They can be recycled! To avoid pollution and the deforestation. In schools, in companies, in the streets we shouldn't throw chewing-gum, paper, bottles on the ground, because they take a very long time to dissapear. It's necessary to use more public transport and less our cars. To take small actions. We must think of the future generations, of the nature, of the fauna and of the flora. A simple act and my earth gets better.

More and more people in France become responssible and tries to do something to protect the environment. But some people are not careful and continue to throw garbage in the nature. Personally, I throw my garbage in the bin and the garbage that I can recycle in an other bin. According to me, if all people make an effort and become aware of the importance of nature, the world will be better and we understand that is easy to save the planet.

In my area I think that people are not concerned by recycling. The city should suggest the citizens simple actions to limit useless waste.That’s why I think that for example we should make a big collect of compost which could be used for the natural in the city.However there are containers for recycling but the problem is that they aren’t everywhere in the city.That’s why people aren’t motivated to sort of their waste. It would be necessary to find more solutions to improve the sorting of waste.The city authorities should take the problem more seriously because it is essential.

I really think that global warming is the biggest danger against the humanbeing. It causes serious damages to the earth weather and environment such as deicing the ice mountains in the north pole and south pole, which might completely affect the climate. Tornadoes, floods, and fire forest are all examples of this terrible danger. Here in my country , people are really aware of that, they are doing their best not to pollute the environment. we can minimize the global warming by reducing the amount of gases we use everyday.

In the building apartment where I live there is no recycling countainer and people do not seem hinder.They act like they are not concern by the urgent need to recycle.On my apartment,we use to put all our trash inside bags and throw through the trash chute.I think that unconsirate behavior is not only because there is not a common conscience on the problem, but also because the building management and the community council do not act enough to encourage people to do it.For example, the community council should pressure each building management to effectively participate at the global recycling plan.Do this will require to the building management to encourage all residents to a positive action toward recycling.

recycling in our area is not taken into account because the people there the only thing they do is throw more, a good solution in our areas is to provide knowledge of the damage hacerca to throw the garbage we generate, as a result of our ignorance ever destroyed but the world around us. why we collect the garbage from the streets and recycle things so we do not serve to end the problem.

Recycling is good, yet it is not very good in all the colonies there trash everywhere and not all the truth if we recycle and we need it so we can recycle and help the environment no longer have that much trash sample bottles and the papers can be reused for many things we are aware and recycle.EscucharLeer fonéticamenteDiccionario - Ver diccionario detalladoartículo0.the

In my area, many people are concerned about recycling, so there are many opportunities to recycling. We have special boxes for used plastic bottles everywhere. What’s more, at home, we have a special box for paper, for plastic bottle…

Recycling is an important issue, all people should care more about it.In my country, there are special companies collecting these materials, they distribute containers with special colors for plastic, for paper…

Another thing is that many people are using plastic bags without considering the harm they are causing to the environment .

In my area, there are containers with special colors in the public places and we collect paper for recycling. Furthermore we have a box for compost to make vegetable garden. I reduce using washing machine and I wash 12am and 2pm.

My, for exemple, I use public tranport and for the shopping I use plastic bags.

Everybody makes one gesture in the environment, in our earth will feel Better.

Not many people in my area are concerned about recycling.In my opinion, we must develop solar panels to save energy. If we've solar panels we can earn money and furthermore, we protect the environment. All people should care more about it. Moreover, we must be more concerned about recycling, that's an easy thing to sort garbage and there are special containers to recycle without difficulty. If we react quickly, we can protect our planet.

In my city in France, there are containers for recycling in a lot of areas, so I recycle my garbage at home, because I think it's important for the planet.Futhermore it's not a difficult action to do everyday. Moreover I try to save electricity, for example I don't keep any machine like TV or computer in the sleep mode.

Yet, a lot of people think the ecology is boring but thanks to a few actions we can save our planet. what's more they can save money.

I think the government in France and many other countries should do more actions to protect the environment to give the example.

To protect the environment, at home, I select plastic bottles and glass bottles but I haven’t got special bins. Yet, some people in France are concern by ecology, for example they install solar panel or recycle bins of different colors, so, each one makes a gesture for environment. However, I think each country should take actions to protect the environment, for example clean beaches, live some hours without electricity or a day without a car. In a nut shell people must be responsible so that our children live in the world that we know today

Everybody must have écological habits, this is really necessary and easy to protect the environment.We can do a lot of little actions like make compost, collect the rain to water the garden. What's more, we can use recycle bags for shopping and choose cardboard packaging instead of plastic packaging because carboard is easier to recycle.If the government doesn't pay attention to the environement, the citizen can change, just with good idea and a minimum of good will.

To save the environnement, it's really important to select items for recycling, that's why in my family, we sort out bottle caps, bottles what's more we stok rainwater. More and more tornadoes, floods and other disastershappen so it would be nice if peaople acted to reduce risks. I also think that companies should turn off lights after work in order to save energy.

I think that recycling is a very important thing for our environment. In my area a lot of people switch off the light when the leave a room , or they buy ecologics bulbs, a lot of my neighbours , keep some place in their gardens to have a composter and throw vegetable waste in it. All the inhabitants of my city are worried about that , and they often organise parties to collect money , in order to build a recycling centre. When I go to the supermarket , I try to have paper bags to reuse them, and to move by bike or on foot, that is to say without my car not to pollue the air. And my parents have bought a lot pf solar panels to collect the energy from the sun. I think that politicians , and the media should speak more about the ways to protect our area and about recycling our waste everyday. I't a very important thing to take care of that, beacause the planet is our environment , it's all we have and we have to protect it what ever the way.

Recycling is not priority in my area, homewer there is different bins for plastic, glass or cardboard. In spite of this, there is nothing for recyvling in my district yet it's develloping and i think it will be important here in few years.

Recycling is an important issue in where I live. some politician even put "protect the earth" in their campaign to accumulate the vote.we have a political party which has a seat in federal government. As you may infer, people are very catious regarding recyling materials.For instance, There are different bins in every building to collect paper, can, bottles, container, cardboard.Yes,here in Canada, everybody is green.

In my town we love the enviroment and we recycling. In the morning we put outside of the door the rubbish, and the dustman take it. Every day we chage the type of rubbish; for example, on Monday we've got the Compost (all that we don't eat); on Tuesday we've got paper, like journals and others. Unfortunately some people are very bad: if you see the beach you can find cigarettes, plastic bottles and other rubbish. If all people do recycling the earth could be perfect!

I live with my family at a skyscraper where the building, at the lobby, offers three big containers for recycling materials such as plastic and aluminium bottle, can, paper and plastic bag etc. I would say most of the tenants will drop these recycling trash while they get in and out of the building. People seem understanding our mother natural needs to be cared. Otherwise, our next generations will not able to enjoy what we have had now. As a matter of fact, everyone only has to think about our future before they throw plastic bottle, can and plastic bag to the recycling containers instead of regular trash bin. Moreover, try to save energy by shutting off air-conditions, lights and computers after people finish tasks will help our world last longer.

Frankly speaking, we are not very keen towards the issue of recycling. Though there are many containers which can separate the type of rubbish, many people just ignored it. Government has earned a lot of money to campaign the recycle program, however it 'falls into deaf ears' among residences. For me, it is all about attitude and to what extent on people's awareness towards this matter. Luckily, we have foreign workers that collect the aluminium cans, papers and bottles over the weekend at resident area and sell it to recycle center for their side income.

I think that recycling is the best way to 'help' our Earth.However, most people don't care about this or simply they are not well informed. As for me, I recycle everything because this is our world and we must keep it alive. Therefore,people must be aware that this is an important action for our world and that, thanks to that, we can live better as well.

Our environment is depleting it is butty through humanitarian artifacts.Recycling should take the lion share in our future plans to ensure the balance in nature and a healthy future conditions for us and for our children.Special attention should be payed for incorporating recycling issue to our primary school students, in order to create a new generation that have got the recycling attitude as a part of their natural behavior.

For protecting envirnment, glass or plastic needs to be scrubbed clean, the labels removed to qualify for recycling, mandatory deposit laws in all places, and making recycling laws. people thought it was hard to be careful to recycle every items. In my country, we have the same peoblem, so i think government should give some publishment to the people who do not recycle.

"Recycle newspapers and save a tree. Collect bottles and cans so they can be reused in the manufacturing of new products." This is really good thing, also is worth us to do it. Actually recycling can protect our environment.

Recycling is a such big deal for the enviroment. Actully people can do their responsibilty for the small things to protect our earth. Save more and more papers, plant trees, and do not waste water, all these things can give us a much better enviroment.

there are a lot recycling bins in my college, you can see 2 trash bins everywhere I think that's a good way to protect the environment and if everyone around us can do what they can do to protect environment there are no more pollution in the world

Recycling is a very good idea and it must be done on a bigger scale. More people must be encouraged to recycle. It is also important to remember that it is not possible to recycle everything and so when it is not possible to recycle or it is too expensive to recycle, it is best to reduce consumption. For example, one resource that can be recycled is water. We built a house in Germany. We selected 2 ways to recycle water in our house. Collecting rain water and reusing it in the garden or toilet and directing water from our bathroom to the garden. Assa from Persia

Recycling is very important to the environment, I agree with the speaker espically in the first point. Actually I was one of the people whom don't care about the recycle but after I came to USA and start to see and listen to the advertising I found that its ok to care a little more about it and I start first. if every one try to care about the recycle and advice each other it will be habit and natural to do it without thinking that its a hard thing to do it.

The trees are very important for our live because they are the source for the oxagen . To protect the inviroment we sould save the trees . There are many way to prodect trees for example recycl the papers and carton . Fainaly,the trees means the life.Mohammed J

The trees are very important for our live because they are the source for the oxagen . To protect the inviroment we sould save the trees . There are many way to prodect trees for example recycl the papers and carton . Fainaly,the trees means the life .Mohammed J

Today,more and more tress were cutted by people.This is bad behavious.Tress are very important to environment,its affect people's life and health.When i see many tress,i feel relax and comfortable.So i think people should protect tress taht reduce cut tress.People plain tress everywhere.

I think tree is very important in the earth.If the earth does not have the tree,all animal and human will be death.so we should do something to protect the tree.For example,we can reduce to cut tree,collect all used paper for recycling,and do not use disposable things.Also we should plant the tree.

sukinah.... Not many people in my country they do recycling or care about the recycling because they do not have enough information about the big problem will happen for the environment if they do not do recycling .

I think this paragraph is talking about a girl loves tree and why her love tree. After that, I think this paragraph is not very difficult. Therefore, I can easy to listen and do this listening question.

I still remember 5 years ago in my mother town you can use plastic bags as you like,but now you must spend some money to use it for plastic bag's recycling fee.So many people in my area use paper bags and cloth bags now.Although a number of people don't know why they use other bags instead of plastic bags,but the high cost has instead they have made a choice.

I think plant trees is very meaningful thing.Trees is very important for protecting the earth's environment.People must reduce cut down the trees.People need plant more trees let the earth's environment better.

Recycling is not popular anywhere. Neither people are interested in it, nor governments. There are no big private players who lobby for such activities but there are many who dissuade the governments to support any such movement. But in the recent days, some NGOs as well as some international multi-government bodies are doing a good job in this field. As a learned citizen of our planet Earth we should support such efforts and help that small group of right mind people which are really working for our posterity.

Save the enviroment is a priority today. I think that one important thnk to do is to use the TV commercials to educate the people about the importance of this. Show how clasify recycling materials at home or in the office and how this helps to our planet would helps to make the people more conscious about the recycling immportance.

we can recycle glass if we return the containers of the product to the same place we bought it because they take this containers to a special place when they are reused,and a good way to recycle paper could be create a notebook with the the paper that has been used writing in the side that has not beeen used.!

I try to buy some recycled goods. Whenever I go shopping for groceries, I always take my shopping bag.I'm saving the water by collecting all cloths and washing them together at once.seprating garbages and puting them into the proper bins is another thing that I do.I don't eat the meet for save the earth. The stock is so needed food that also needs of the hunger.also, the muck makes so many air and soil pollution.A small step makes a big difference.

I try to buy some recycled goods. Whenever I go shopping for groceries, I always take my shopping bag.I'm saving the water by collecting all cloths and washing them together at once.seprating garbages and puting them into the proper bins is another thing that I do.I don't eat the meet for save the earth. The stock is so needed food that also needs of the hunger.also, the muck makes so many air and soil pollution.A small step makes a big difference.

I try to buy some recycled goods. Whenever I go shopping for groceries, I always take my shopping bag.I'm saving the water by collecting all cloths and washing them together at once.seprating garbages and puting them into the proper bins is another thing that I do.I don't eat the meet for save the earth. The stock is so needed food that also needs of the hunger.also, the muck makes so many air and soil pollution.A small step makes a big difference.

my name is emanuel:Paper RecyclingPaper recycling is the paper recovery process and used to transform into new paper products. There are three categories of paper that can be used as raw material for recycled paper: grinding, pre-consumer waste and scrap of paper post-consumo.1 ground are bits and pieces from the manufacture of paper, and is recycled internally in a paper mill. Pre-consumer wastes are materials that have gone through the paper mill, and have been rejected before they are ready for consumption. Post-consumer waste paper materials are used and that the consumer rejects, such as old magazines or newspapers, office supplies, telephone, etc. The paper considers suitable for recycling is called "scrap of paper"

Current recycling process

The paper is recycled paper pulp reducing and combining with new pulp from wood. Since the recycling process causes disruption of the fibers, recycled whenever the quality of the paper decreases, which means that a high percentage must add new fibers, or be synonymous with lower quality products. Any writing or coloring paper must first be removed by decoloración.2Almost any type of paper can be recycled today, but some are more difficult to treat than others. The papers covered with plastic or aluminum, and waxed papers, glued or gummed usually not recycled because of the high cost involved. The wrapping paper can not be recycled due to its already poor calidad.3Sometimes recycling plants asked to withdraw the brightness of the newspapers, because they are of a different type of paper. They have a clay coating that some factories may not work. Most of the clay is removed from the recycled pulp as sludge.[Edit] Reasons for recycling

The paper industry is an effect in the environment, both with previous activities (which are acquired and processed raw materials), as in the subsequent (impact of disposal). Recycling paper reduces this impact. Currently, 90% of paper pulp is manufactured from wood. Paper production accounts for about 35% of lumber, 4 assuming 1.2% of the global production volume total.5Recycling one ton of newsprint saves approximately one ton of wood while recycling one ton of paper copies printed or saved over two tonnes of wood. This is because the pulping of wood requires twice to remove lignin and produce higher quality fibers with mechanical manufacturing processes. The relationship between the tons of recycled paper and the number of trees saved is not trivial, since the size of the trees varies greatly and is the main factor in the amount of paper that can be obtained from a number of them.Most pulp manufacturers perform a reforestation to ensure a continuous supply of paper. In Canada, the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) and the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certifies that the paper made from trees felled meets practice guidelines, ensuring best practice is forestales.6 estimated that recycling half the world's paper would avoid the harvesting of 20 million acres (81,000 km ²) forestales.7In summary, some reasons to recycle paper are saving:17 adult trees.2.5 cubic meters of waste.27,000 liters of water.1440 liters of oil.4100 kilowatt hours (14,700 megajoules) of energy.27 kilograms of contaminants.For every ton of paper recycled, compared with the production of that same ton of virgin paper.

What we do is to recycle:* Lights out, in case you are not using* not spending a lot of water and gas* Recycle paper that is not dirty or damaged* Use biodegradable bags plasties* Using bags of straw to make the remittance* Reuse plastic bags* Avoid throwing away plastic bags

The recycling is an important issue and all people should be aware and take part in saving our environment. But not all people are supporting this opinion. And for this reason our goverment plays an important rule in the promotion and enforcement of recycling. There is necessary to have the aim to penetrate through minds of those who living in developed countries and have more things to worry about then their environment. In my area to save the environment from the pollutions some supermarkets sale a biodegradable bags because the plastic bag is polluting and long to decay. Furthermore there are separate containers in the large parks for organic, inorganic, plastic garbage. And i have observed that people are willing to throw away some waste in correct box. As for my family, my mom and dad also put some of their leftover food (e.g. banana peels, egg shells, ect.)outside in a special box that turn the scraps into soil for their garden. We also save energy turning off the light that we are not using, trying to reduce using washing machine, moreover instead of consuming paper towels for cleaning we try to use fabrics. And we all know that if in our environment will be less pollutions all people won't have respiratory issues

Many people in Vietnam don't have much time to care about this issue since they are too hectic with their careers or studying. However,thanks to the development of media, individuals are more able to access to environmental problems, by taking part in campaigns, conservation, and some other activities,especially youngsters. But we must change our attitude and improve awareness. Trash is still thrown to streets everyday. In my opinion, Vietnamese governments are only scratching the surface in tackling this acute problem

I love recycling. Since last year, I've been sorting the garbage so I can take it for recycling on my december vacation.

I know it's not common yet people recycling stuff they usually throw away, but I think we don't have to wait until the goverment or our neighbors start to do such things. If you can do it, so do it. As M.Gandhi said: Be the change you wanna see in the world.

Recycling is a good thing to do when you have used something that you can't use anymore. It saves resources. And people in my country are quite concerned about that. They usually recycle glass, paper, plastics and other things because they have the proper containers to do it.

However we can't solve the environmental problems with just recycling. We use more things than we really need. And the resources of the Earth are not infinite. We should think seriously about it. If not, we will suffer the consequences.

This is worrying each time we do nothing to help improve the pollution in the world. if we do not put our part. Who will do it?. the answer is simple no one will. Let's start with something small. as recycling paper, cardboard, bottles. bringing these materials to where to buy them. in my house the end of the month, there are plenty of cards, and what I do is pick them up and take them to recycling sites.

Hello everybody. Nice to meet you. My name is Tuyet, from Viet Nam- a small country but had to suffer war with thousand of year but we are free now. And my country are developing so it has many proplem, including evironmental issue. Actualy, I also feel shame cos I am not really protecting environment yet. Sometime I still waste resource such as water, elictricity, paper,...But I will effort to protect planet and tell people around me protect it together.I think we can save our planet by turn of light, computer, fan...when we no using it. I know many people can not do it because they are feel it inconvenient. For example, my friends and even me often light the lamp in bathroom but we dont turn of it when we go out. I used to remind them turn of when I see. Sometimes, I am in hurry of go to work, i tend to go without turning off lamp but my mind remind me need to save electricity so I am back to my room and turn off.Second, we can save paper by using any paper which have white side to write such as celendar, paper which was writen a side...

My name is Griselda. I think the environment needs people to care for nature recycle and care the water. is important that student in the school collect paper for recycling only twice a year and not with a big enthusiasm.finally we do not harm the environment.

I don't do too much to save the environment. I don't recycle and I throw a lot of garbage. I think it's because I'm lazy and because, on the other hand, i think the planet goes on polluted and my help changes nothing. I would like to save the planet but i think that all the people must help to do it. If only some people do things to save our planet, it'll go on contaminated. However, in my area most of people recycle and the streets are very clean. I consider that it's necessary to teach the children the importance of take care the Earth and love it. Because they are the planet's future.

My name is FERNANDO OROZCO MARTIN, COLOMBIA I propose to reduce excess waste does not needlessly waste materials such as paper, cardboard and others. Full use of the role in this way is making use of recycling such as paper it should be used on both sides, avoid the use of materials that can not be recycled as polystyrene, plastic.It is important to provide information to people on the subject of recycling in the future are to enjoy a healthy environment

The world is realizing that the only way to stop global warming and other forms of environmental degradation is uniting humanity in a single effort . It's time to put your grain of sand. Here's a list of things you can (and you should ) do to stop polluting the environment. We thought that list was not enough , so we 've included some explanations.

Protection the worsening enviroment is awlays the important problem that need us facing together. i come from China, as you know , Chinese is puzzleing by the large-scale haze, our goverment try to improve the public transportation in order to reduce the amount of privary car, close some factories that haven't get the enviromental protection standard. Now i am living in Redmond, i ordered 3 garbage bin s,one is for ordinary ,one is recycling, one is for yard.Classifying garbage is a good habit for protection the enviroment. when i go shopping, i choose paper ,not plastic. Care about only a little thing, accumulate it , we can see a better result.

Hello,I think I am concerned about recycling, but sometimes it is very difficult. I mean, when you have got in your kitchen three different containers in which you separate your rubbishes according to their nature, but you see other people throwing their garbages without consider what is the appropriate container... you really think if what you are doing it is worth.Bye.

-What are five specific things individuals can do to protect the environment?I think that there are many things that people can do to protect the environment, such as: 1. To reuse recipients and bags as many times as possible; 2. Not to waste water when people is in the bathroom, cooking or washing dishes; 3. To separate rubbish according to materials and dispose them in the proper bag or can (color system), etc; 4. To turn off unused lights and unplugged unused household appliances, and so on; 5. To reduce the use of one's car.

-What are some reasons why people do not recycle or are careless when they dispose of garbage?In my oppinion, it is a matter of unawareness of the environmental problem with waste, or because people do not know about the benefits of recycling, or even because they do not see a profit outcome from doing it.

-Are there any unique programs in your city or country that promote recycling and protecting the environment?There are few governmental programs but they are not enough. The policies do exist but they are not well executed or implemented. There is a lack of authority to impose penalty fees and other measures.

Hi,I think it doesn't need to much effort to take care of our enviroment. First step which you can do to collect rubbishes separatly. In Hungary there are specific conainers (paper, PET and almost all type of plastic, metal, glass) where you can drop your rubbishes. Not really necessarry to buy a specific container. You can use dedicated bags as me:) I've read the previous artice. Once I was mocked by my frinds that I had collected the bio rubbish in a holiday and had brought home. Maybe it was overdrawn ... and stink a little bit:D Bye! Mike

Hi, Well, I think people is careless about recycling or enviromental impact because they don´t think in a long term vision, they just live the "right now moment" and don´t consider the future, even though goverments also play a big roll in this polemic issue, goverments need to teach people about the advantages of recycling and how this process can be turned in a good way to improve their life.I'm from El Salvador, and we don't have any Reclyng Program, but there are some ONG's, zero in on little towns far way from the capital city, that teach farmers how to recycle manure, for example.

What are five specific things individuals can do to protect the environment? To begin with, first of all, people should collect their litter and sort this out if it needs. Secondly, individuals should educate their kids about environmental issues and not going to be conscious of that can lead to the disaster worldwide. Thirdly, to avoid excessive consumerism in supermarkets and shops is to purchase only such commodities that are needed, indeed. Fourthly, using smarthome systems and electric cars is the way to wane emissions out of the passing petrol and diesel engine vehicles. Last but not least, beware of the last technology advancements about reusable products is the way to consciously buy this items. What are some reasons why people do not recycle or are careless when they dispose of garbage?I firmly believe that the reasons are as simple as possible. Folks do not want to think about it and they have far more important tasks during their daily life. Again, disposing of garbage are getting harder because sometimes individuals do not know how to sort it out properly.Are there any unique programs in your city or country that promote recycling and protecting the environment?Yes, they are. There are few of them, actually, across the whole country. Plastics, paper, glass recycling are recycled by the factories which is located in the capital. In smaller towns there are only dumps and pipes. Our country and population do not care of that.

Hi I think technology is helping with less paper use and also better free information about how we are overusing the natural resources. Our economic model push people to expend and expend, more and more.

Recycling from our homes, making a good final disposal, educate our children and friends to make a culture of recycling wherever they go and certainly implement programs to promote this, apply new technologies for continuous improvement of it, those are some ideas to be applied anywhere in the world. To do awareness that the planet will not last long if we continue like this.

Recycling from our homes, making a good final disposal, educate our children and friends to make a culture of recycling wherever they go and certainly implement programs to promote this, apply new technologies for continuous improvement of it, those are some ideas to be applied anywhere in the world. To do awareness that the planet will not last long if we continue like this.

1. Recycle the materials correctly: paper, glass, common waste2. Govier commitment to educate people on how and importance of recycling3. Create policies for recycling companies4. To improve recycling technologies5. You create programs that encourage pesonas to enlighten the importance of saving energy and wáter

The main reasons why people do not recycle are lack of education and lack of standards by governments generenn fines for those who do not.In our country if there are laws that protect the environment, but these are not effective because the population lacks education to meet them

Hello, from Southen Spain, I live in a medium-sized city, and it's not usual to recycle in my area, but little by little more and more people are becoming aware about environmental problem, so I'm excited for this one. I know there are a lot of things to do. Greetings from Spain.

What are five specific things individuals can do to protect the environment? What are five specific things individuals can do to protect the environment?

To begin with, I'm from the country where the public policy on protection of the environment is loose. Specifically, there is no effective legislation and enforcement on recycling waste. To introduce an effective policy to protect the environment I would suggest a set of measures. Firstly, people must initiate and launch a public campaign, using social media, newspaper, TV to involve the wider audience. Doing so, they should emphasize the negative impact of improper recycling habits on the environment. The public campaign should be constant and well-resourced with voluntary activists. Secondly, people should educate their family members, others who is not aware of the environmental problems and their impact. Thirdly, every person himself/ herself must be a good example for others, showing how to sort out the garbage or behave properly in the streets or nature. Fourthly, people should contribute to drafting a national program, action plan, and approving effective legal framework to protect the environment, based on the internationally recognized standards and practices. Lastly, people should bear in mind that to enforce the legislation and rules effectively they should set a high penalty for the violations. enforce the legislation and rules effectively they should set a high penalty for the violations.

What are some reasons why people do not recycle or are careless when they dispose of garbage?

In my opinion, people do not recycle properly or careless whey they dispose of garbage, because of the lack of the knowledge how to sort out the garbage.

Are there any unique programs in your city or country that promote recycling and protecting the environment?

Nowadays, environmentally friendly developing nations developed comprehensive technology to recycle waste. The city where I live should introduce such technologies to reduce negative environmental impact.

What I would do would be to bathe for 5 minutes, because if you bathe more time you would be wasting a lot of water. even to bathe my dogs would do with buckets and not with the hose, and the same to wash the car, with 3 buckets that fill will be enough.

talk about the environment and more is currently very important, so the first thing we must do is transform our thinking by thinking and conscientizing actions to turn them into habits that benefit the environment, we can start putting the trash in place , because in the end the earth is the only place in which we can live so we must take care of it.

I'm vietnamese. Việt Nam just gives an eye on the environment recently. About ten years ago we let all the foreigners come in our country to build up many industrial company. Many of them ruined the environment sadly that we didnt set up a strictly regulation.Now we are trying to fix that

Pau Grau 4ESOI believe that in the vidio the whole reason is said about pollution. and to solve it I think we should avoid as much as possible the use of vehicles and increase the use of public transports.

In the little city where I live the departamental goverment is trying to educate more about the environment that surround us, literary we are near of a wetland very important for us that until now we just take care of them, the problem with that is that the people don't pay attention to that gift we have due to it protect us from the floods and throw garbage into the wetland I've been a witness of it, I gathered all that in bags but the point is clear, the situation is a little complicated because a lot of people that nowadays live in the little city, myself included are not from here, they are either from other part of the country or they are from Bogotá the capital, it takes time but as you said in the video many goverments are taking care about this topic and here is not an exception we've just begun but with the time we can do somthing about it

To protect the environment, people shouldn't throw their waste in the street but into the bins.And people should make the sorting.In my city there aren't many bins and recycling centres so people throw the waste on the ground.For me, Political should create a law and give a fine to people who pollute the street and the sea.If people take their waste to recycling centres. they should get money back.

Recycling is a beneficial process, that could conserve our environment. However, not all of us could understand the impotence or this mechanism in our time. However,some people care of our surroundings by digging domestic waste, besides plastic things. Moreover, some of them gather & sortie plastics,glasses& papers in special cans.

Where I live, Sao Paulo, Brazil, something new could appear to show our population how important is take care of planet earth. There is no important attitudes of people about those topics where I live, so the only thing that I can do is do my part and tell people that I live together to do something for our planet. In my house, we separate the garbage that countains plastic, radioative materials and organic trash, because it will help the final receptor who will treat it.

As far as I'm concerned, there's been improvement in protecting the environment, but still not much in recycling. There're even people having no sense of this activity. I hope in the future, there'll be more positive changes.

What are five specific things individuals can do to protect the environment?

- Recycle the materials ( plastic, cardboard...)- Improve the advertising about recycling - Implement a project at schools with the objective of teaching students how to recycle- Show the importance do not wasting natural resources, for example when we wash the teeth (just 3 minutes !) or when we take a shower, with speakers in classroom and show the importance of taking care of the planet- Take the bus or the bicycle (and leave the car at home) when the road is not too long

The main reasons why people do not recycle is that they are not aware of the impact in the environment, and they do not have time to change this comportment, because of the routine or even monetary reasons. In my country we recycle the cardboard and the plastic in two differents trash cans. Also, at my garden we have a compost for the waste that after we can use for the planting!

In my city people seems to be concerned the environment . For example a society is making electrical bus , we will have less polution . At home i try to separate garbage that contains plastic , paper and organics materials .

I think what we can do to protect and safe the world is we can do gotong-royong with our neighbours.While we do gotong-royong we also can make a friends with our neighbourhood.Also,we can do campaign.It is because with this campaign we also can attract people to join this campaign and also we can do some race.Example,recycling project at home,coloring contest for children and also home cleanest competition.

Environmental protection is vital for the future generations and of course for us. According to my eyes, there are several specifics ways that we can do in order to protect the environment, for instances:

1) Selecting adequately what we buy in the market. That is, buying green and eco-friendly products.2) Advocating for a good environmental policy in their countries.

In spite of some entities' effort, many people do not care about the mother nature. I think this happens because people do not know the process of the recycling inside the home. For example, in my city, authorities did not make a plan to confront the garbage problem. So as a consequence some people drop off the garbage in the streets which has enormous effects in the public health.

Environment protection is an important job to regulate the damage that we deal to the Earth, help our planet last longer so we, other species can liveNot only the adult but also the children can help to improving the environment by reduce the amount of garbage that a family produce to the environment per city, state. For each person, family reduce less and less, the more less garbage that we have to deal with and also the less toxic chemical from those garbage could effect to the environment. We can reducing the CO2 exported to the air by using non-gas car, engine that we use in our daily life such as riding a bike in a city instead of a car, use electronic subway or even walk in those large city, it not only help to reduce the damage to the planet but also help to improve your health in life.

I think recycling takes a important place in the earth, most of the pollution is due to the people that do not recycle. We can prevent the pollution recycling plastic and other thing. Here in Panama, were I live, we really don't do much of recycling. Most of my neighbors thriw some rests of food in the soil, those rest of foods give the soil more nutrients. I think we should recycle more to avoid pollution and help the nature.

JT: I think that in my community recycling is something you see, because it is difficult to see the rubbish thrown through the streets or forests where I live. I think it is a subject that is very stressed, but hardly people take seriously. In my opinion I am someone very clean when garbage is being talked about because I like to recycle and become things that my family does not use in something nice

Jt: In my community recycling is something you see, because it is difficult to see the rubbish thrown through the streets or forests where I live. I think it is a subject that is very stressed, but hardly people take seriously. In my opinion I am someone very clean when garbage is being talked about because I like to recycle and return things that my family does not use in something nice

For me,the environment proteccion is very important becouse i think if everyone help to save the nature, we can do life better In my are we dont do something to save the enviroment that is true but we help dont throw garbaje and tha is something good ¿no?

Well as everyone know protecting our environment is something that we as humanos should do as an obligation, but sadly in Panama many people are not conscious about how can pollution affect us, thats why many people here in this country Just don't pay attention about this problematic and leave everything to the hands of the goverment.I think that there exist many ways of protecting our planet and one of it is by reusing as more as posible because it will reduce a lot the among of plastic and papel that in the end finish in the seas killing many animals and also by reducing the use of water and lights at home. I just want to add that it would be good if we teach children since they are little Kids the importance of Earth and that we must protect it if we want to continue living million an million of year in this planet.

In my opinion it is very important to protect the environment for pollution. sometimes and when I can recycle as much as I can, separating the materials used at home, for example paper and food. My parents one day took me to see the water plant, it was awesome !! ; At age 6 they took me and a worker told me that water is also part of recycling; There, I began to save water at home and to practice recycling day by day.

We have to try to take care of the environment, since this is where we live, so we can take care of it by not throwing garage, if we go to a nearby place, walk, burn the garbage, reuse things like the blasas of the super market, not smoke, we must put a lot of our part to put have a world more lim

My name is Claris Sánchez This issue of recycling is very important. And first of all I think that we have to implement laws against throwing garbage in rivers, seas, and the city. Because it affects us humans and animals alike, and these laws should be taken seriously and if they see someone throwing garbage they should sanction it, because they are not taking care of where they live. In addition, recycling is a very good idea to eliminate garbage since recycling can be done different activities.

Recycling is a mayor issue nowadays. the worst part of all is that our governments don't seem to pay much attention. they'd rather allocate millions of dollars in political campaigns which do not help address this issue at all. In my country, we don't have any recycling center that I know of and I hear no efforts from anywhere regarding ways to improve this.

I feel that in Panama the people don’t recycle. I think that they do it in some places, as Panama City specifically in Clayton, Ciudad del Saber. The culture in Panama is too bad, some people take care about the environment, only some people, the minority. Normally here people aren’t interested in where they put the waste, when sewers are collapsed people ever blame to the government. I don’t know how do the people don’t have consideration. They don’t have heart.The best option would be produce less things. I really like to protect the environment, because nobody can live without him. For help the environment I propose to plant more trees because they’re necessary to live. Recycle is a good option, but is useless if people going to produce more things than before. In my personal opinion, is good but useless. We need to reduce! In this case better option is reuse.

Most people think that recycling is unnecessary, however, we do not realize the damage we cause to ourselves and the environment. In the case of Panama there are recycling companies such as "Gesvil Recycling", where there are containers where you can deposit and recycle plastic containers, cardboard, glass, aluminum cans, metal, among others ...There are few people who recycle, by not recycling the trash this clogs the sewers. If sewers become clogged due to garbage, this can cause flooding and serious problems in the city. The rivers and seas are being polluted, reducing the habitat of the species that live in them and even killing them ...

In Panama, for me, recycling should be taken more seriously. I would call Panama one of the countries that does not worry about recycling at all. The current government has not worried in the least about this issue that is so important to us. We must take care of the only place where we live, the planet earth. If people in Panama do not throw garbage everywhere we can have a nicer and cleaner country but the government as before said does not take the slightest time to think about this topic, recycling

Based on my own experience in Canada, the government has implemented several green projects to pith in for the sustainable development of our society. There is an outpouring of support of old and new generations concerned about this global issue. To illustrate, in my city, Montréal, it is almost mandatory to recycle and people have access to public recycling boxes in almost every single corner os the city.

In Vietnam,many people are gathering everyone to stop littering from anywhere in the country. The government also are making laws to banned people from dropping waste into the street. Overall, our country are doing changes to the environment.

Here in Mexico few people have the habit of recycling. But some people create ideas to be better people with the planet, creating awareness in the facts. We are trying to reduce the use of paper and plastic, to avoid the excessive felling of trees and pollution.

in Mexico few people has the culture of recycling, even though it's a very talked topic. It´s believed that to reduce the pollutants we must apply the 3'R : reduce, recycle and reuse.The government and even many people have implemented measures for recycling, such as recycling centers with special containers.The collected plastics, papers, glasses, etc. go through a special process to be reused later.